Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

Silence has its own music. It can be heard only by those who have dropped all noise from the head. It can be heard only from the heart, not by the head. The heady person goes on missing it. Only the person who is full of heart, full of love, can hear the music.

How can a field that seems to primarily be reserved for a few academics be used to cure the insomnia or sleepless nights of the masses?

One of the greatest works of Philosophy comes from an Emperor who lived almost 2000 years ago. Such was the nature of hiswork, that men and women throughout the ages have continued to use his work ‘Meditations’ as a guiding philosophy for life. From betrayal by his close allies, to being jailed and even facing […]

Client-centered therapy or person-centered therapy is a non-directive kind of talk therapy developed by Carl Rogers. Coming from a humanistic perspective, Rogers believed that people are innately good. He also strongly believed that people have an actualizing tendency or the ability to work towards achieving the best they can out of themselves.  And based on […]

As per OSHO, freedom has two sides and if we experience only one side of it, our freedom will not be complete. To understand this thought, let’s see what the whole psychology of freedom entails.  The first side involves freedom from a nationality, a church, an organisation, a race, a religion, a political ideology. Once […]

Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer behind what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) – which has 12,67,069 words in it. The text was published in French in 7 volumes, spanning over 14 years. And was immediately hailed as the […]

Aggression is often due to insecurity.  When thrown outside aggression hurts others while when it is goes inside the person it creates stress. What is insecurity? Insecurity is always related to future. The mind has this unique quality to exist only in future and therefore all insecurities are related to future. Insecurities related to our […]

Jonathan Dancy is a 20th century British philosopher who has written on ethics and epistemology. In his text, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Dancy offers us three arguments that the skeptics offer us to prove the uncertainty of knowledge. These are ‘Brains in Vats Argument’, ‘The Argument from Error’ & ‘The Arguments from Experience’.Skepticism is […]